Recorded as from New York. (Yesteryear, Kingston, New York, 1939). Purchased by (Frederick F. Hill) as agent for Mariners' Museum, Newport News, Virginia, 1940.[1] (Old Print Shop, New York), by whom sold in 1951 to Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch; gift to NGA, 1971. [1] Letter of 8 February 1973 from Harold S. Sniffen, Assistant Director of the Mariner's Museum, to William P. Campbell, in NGA curatorial file. Sniffen writes that their purchasing agent Frederick Hill bought the painting for the Museum from an unknown agent or dealer on 1 August 1940.